Level 1 - 2-Day Training - Let's get started with AIM - French Immersion/Francisation (for teachers of Grades K-2) with Ann Chiasson, author of our new Immersion Teacher's Guides in our Immersion Kits
Cost: Earlybird price is $389.00 per teacher until April 30th (Reg. $429.00). You can also bundle with our 1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions for $639.00.
Dates: Wednesday, July 15, 2026 and Thursday, July 16, 2026
Times: 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST / 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST
Note: B.C. Teachers may apply for a Bursary to cover the cost of the Workshop (2-day training plus Specialty sessions). You can confirm your eligibility by reviewing the Bursary criteria. Limited availability, so apply TODAY. Full details in the dropdown below.
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Do you want to experience the excitement of seeing your students reading, writing, and speaking the target language?
At AIM Language Learning, we’re on a mission to help increase student language acquisition through our unique classroom methodology. Our approach to language learning provides teaching resources, teacher development, and ongoing support for language teachers, from Kindergarten to grade 12.
Note: B.C. Teachers may apply for a Bursary to cover the cost of the Workshop (2-day training plus Specialty sessions). Limited availability, so apply TODAY.
PLENARY 8:00 am-8:30 am PST / 11:00 am-11:30pm EST
Day 1
Classroom Routines and Oral Language development
In these sessions, we will focus on:
- developing oral language skills through the extensive use of the Gesture Approach
- learning gestures and how to use them to effectively helps students develop oral language skills
- simplifying the language so that you may engage exclusively in the Target language with students
- implementing effective AIM Routines for engagement and successful classroom management
- using Transition songs develop language skills and create a sense of security and predictability
Day 2
Centre Activities!
In these sessions, we will focus on:
- the continued development oral language skills
- how to model activities so that students may effectively engage in centre activities exclusively in French
- how to ensure that students engage in French only in all activities
- AIM activities that develop written language skills
- a variety of concrete activities that take the AIM philosophy into the teaching of social studies, math, science, art and language arts
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BUNDLE your 2-day training with our 60-minute Specialty Sessions on Friday!
The following are Friday's sessions:
1-Day AIM Specialty Sessions (Regular Price $250.00)
Each session will be 60 minutes long. You will receive a link to each of the 5 live sessions, and can attend whichever ones you like. Since some of these sessions will overlap, you will receive recordings of the sessions to view at your leisure for 90 days!
Date: July 22, 2026
PLENARY 8:00 am-8:10 am PST / 11:00 am-11:10am EST
1. Classroom organization /management in a deskless classroom - 8:10am-9:10am PST / 11:10am-12:10pm EST -
with Richard Smith, Certified AIM teacher/facilitator
In this session, you will:
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gain insights into proven effective classroom management strategies that work with younger as well as older students
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learn strategies to build strong relationships with students
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learn how to set up and manage a deskless classroom to promote flexibility, movement, engagement, and student ownership
2. Engaging Activities That Build Students’ Descriptive Language - 9:20am-10:20am PST / 12:20am-1:20pm EST - with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM
In this session, you will:
- understand how AIM effectively builds students' vocabulary from one Kit to the next in a spiralling manner
- gain hands-on experience with AIM's most popular vocabulary-building activities
- view video samples of classes and individual students engaging in these activities!
3. Being Creative with Les mots qui vont ensemble and Les phrases bizarres! - 10:30am-11:30am PST / 1:30pm-2:30pm EST -
with
Isabelle Racine, AIM teacher
In this session, you will:
- Discover a fun, low-prep vocabulary activity—“Bizarre ou pas?”—that boosts student engagement through prediction, visualization, and critical thinking.
- Learn how to use short 4-minute videos to reinforce specific AIM vocabulary through word association and sentence analysis.
- Leave with ready-to-use ideas for integrating “Les mots qui vont ensemble” into your classroom, including an end-of-year project to showcase student learning to parents.
4. Vocabulary in Action: Oral Activities that Get Students Talking - 11:40am - 12:40pm PST / 2:40pm-3:40pm EST - with Wendy Maxwell, Creator of the AIM
In this session, you will:
- understand what AIM activities support students' ability to describe effectively, an important aspect of language proficiency
- receive hands-on experience with each activity, so that you understand how to effectively model each one
- view how even the early/basic activities are scaffolded so that as students progress with AIM, they become better at describing!
5. Teaching reading to Beginner French students with Les sons readers series - 12:50pm-1:50pm PST / 3:50pm-4:50pm EST - with Pauline Galea, AIM certified Teacher/Mentor, host of Parlez avec Pauline
In this session, you will:
- Experience Pauline’s new readers series ‘Les sons’ with a focus on the Science of Reading
- Provide hands-on practice to show how to effectively use AIM strategies such as des questions totales et partielles and
- Provide hands-on practice with activities such Qu’est-ce que tu vois dans l’image ? and Décris l’image to develop oral language skills in short, simple activities
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Refund Policy:
Up to 2 weeks prior 90% refunded.
No refunds two weeks prior to Summer Institute.
